posted 08-05-2011 12:34 PM
Comparable to the manned missions topic, I would like to start a topic on unmanned pins and buttons in order to learn what's out there. Here are my NASA Voyager buttons:

Robert PearlmanEditor

Posts: 32226From: Houston, TXRegistered: Nov 1999

posted 08-08-2011 02:29 PM
A friend who helped lead two recent planetary missions at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent me his collection of pins that he amassed in his desk while there (he has since left JPL).

For example: Grace 3 Years, Mars Odyssey 10,000 Orbits, Voyager 1 100 AU, and two for Cassini — 2 Years and 4 Years at Saturn.

Jim BehlingMember

Posts: 785From: Cape Canaveral, FLRegistered: Mar 2010

posted 08-31-2011 09:43 AM
The top is pins of missions, payload and experiments that I have supported.

The bottom is the remainder of my collection.

to-the-starsNew Member

Posts: 8From: CanadaRegistered: Jun 2009

posted 09-03-2011 08:27 PM
Jim, as a space pins collector I looked over your collection with great interest. Some of your pins I never met before.

Unfortunately the resolution of your images doesn't allow to see details and read inscriptions on some of the pins. Is it possible to get better images of the following pins or at least to quote the inscriptions?

Jim BehlingMember

Posts: 785From: Cape Canaveral, FLRegistered: Mar 2010

posted 09-04-2011 03:54 PM
Third from the left says "Juno 2011 Lockheed Martin". First on the third row "Genesis".

posted 07-12-2014 10:32 AM
55 years ago both Luna 2 and Luna 3 missions were in preparation, resulting in respectively the first lunar impact and the first images of the far side of the Moon...On the right some Venera mission pins (1975).